Determining relative magma and host rock xenolith rheology during magmatic fabric formation in plutons: Examples from the middle and upper crust

Geosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 270-285

  Yoshinobu, Aaron S ^a   Wolak, Jeannette M ^a,c   Paterson, Scott R ^b   Pignotta, Geoffrey S ^b,d   Anderson, Heather S ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; HOST ROCK; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLUTON; RHEOLOGY; UPPER CRUST; XENOLITH;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953995249     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00191.1     Document Type: Article

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